US Patent Issued to Canon on Jan. 13 for "Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,520, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Canon K.K. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and information processing system" was invented by Takahiro Murata (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus includes a first acquisition unit configured to acquire, from an external apparatus, a state regarding at least one item of a password policy of a password string entered on the external apparatus, and an obfuscated password string, a second acquisition unit configured to acquire a setting, which is made in the information processing apparatus, regarding the at ...